• Corpus ID: 18513470

Electronic Voting : Security Issues

@inproceedings{Penney2007ElectronicV,
  title={Electronic Voting : Security Issues},
  author={Jamie Penney},
  year={2007}
}
This paper covers the some of the security issues in current electronic voting systems. There are many problems with current electronic voting systems . The certification of systems in the USA is done without public input, and the resulting certification reports are kept secret. Many machines lack external audit capabilit ies such as a voter verifiable paper trail. Many systems can be easily hacked, allowing multip le votes, votes by unauthorised persons, and manipulation of vote tallies. US… 
No Paper Link Available

Figures from this paper

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 17 REFERENCES
Analysis of an electronic voting system
TLDR
It is shown that voters, without any insider privileges, can cast unlimited votes without being detected by any mechanisms within the voting terminal software, and that any paperless electronic voting system might suffer similar flaws, despite any certification it could have otherwise received.
E-voting: should we pull the lever?
Electronic voting can be as simple as a punch-card ballot that is tallied by machine, or as complex as today's most cutting-edge systems that let voters make a direct digital record of their choices…
Towards a practical, secure, and very large scale online election
  • Jared Karro, Jie Wang
  • Computer Science
    Proceedings 15th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'99)
  • 1999
TLDR
It is shown that even if all voters follow the Sensus protocol honestly, some voters' votes may still be replaced with different votes without being detected, and the proposed protocol overcomes these drawbacks.
Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine
TLDR
This paper presents a fully independent security study of a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine, including its hardware and software, obtained from a private party, which shows that it is vulnerable to extremely serious attacks.
The perils of polling
It's unusual and more than a bit surprising that in the short term, technologists want to slow down the move to electronic systems while many election officials are ready to speed ahead. If the…
ACM statement on voting systems
The Association recommends more attention to integrity, security, and usability in the design and use of all voting systems.
Fixing federal e-voting standards
Without a threat model and a system model, voting standards cannot ensure the integrity or accuracy of the voting process.
Analyzing internet voting security
TLDR
An extensive assessment of a proposed Internet-based voting system for the European Parliament is presented.
Defence in Depth
Small vote manipulations can swing elections
Considering the effects and implications of changing only a single vote per machine.
...
...